Saturday 30 August 2008

Bonham Carter's relatives killed in crash

Four members of British actress Helena Bonham Carter's family have been killed in a road accident while on a South African safari holiday.



Three former members of the kin were injured when a tyre burst and the minivan they were in flipped several times, The Telegraph reported.


The Hollywood star has reportedly left the set of the new Terminator plastic film in Mexico to fly back to Britain undermentioned the family tragedy.


A cousin of the actress, Fiona Egerton-Warburton, managed to drag herself from the wreck, despite a broken collarbone.


One of her sons, Piers, 16, loose with whiplash injury injuries, the newspaper said.


But another son, Marcus Egerton-Warburton, 14, was killed, as were his step-grandfather Francis Kirkwood, 74, the grandfather's wife Brenda Bonham Carter, also 74, and Kay Patricia Bonham Carter, 55, the wife of Marcus' uncle Graham Bonham Carter.


The family were travelling from Botswana to another hunting expedition park in neighbouring South Africa when the accident happened.


They were only a few kilometres from their destination at the Madikwe Game Lodge, in Thabazimbi, about 150km north of the capital Pretoria, according to the newspaper.







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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Wilco Adrift at McCarren Park Pool

Photo: mysticchildz's flickr



What was missing from last evening�s Wilco show at McCarren Pool? It�s difficult to be exact, with so much that seemed right: cool breezes, cold beer, greasy pork sandwiches (served by Fette Sau, and not in dirty ashtrays). Plus: the big hits, multiple encores, a high ratio of tune to noise. Perhaps it was the proverbial cock tease � not wanky enough. Let us, first, lay to rest the lazy idea that McCarren Park Pool is some hipster refuge. Yesterday, if anything (and this is taking into consideration the hipster lovelies occasionally seen cantering, foal-like, to join friends in beer lines, or perhaps simply share sweet nothings), the venue harbored middle-stream preps, members, one gathers, of New York City�s more productive industries, glad to stop off at home on the way from work to, sartorially speaking, revert � also attitudinally, perhaps � to their college days. This is all to say that the band had a golden moment: casual rock fans, but serious about a favorite group, looking for a chill time. And it was chill. But it was not bluegrass-in-a-big-field chill. Maybe it was the concrete. Maybe it was the concision of the band�s discordant eruptions. Maybe it was us, all of us � middlestream and hip of center � not quite dissolving into the moment. It was a fine time. But not quite beautiful. �Nick Catucci





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Sunday 10 August 2008

The Walt Disney Company Is Presenting Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato in a Special Concert to Benefit City of Hope on September 14

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fans of Miley Cyrus and
the Jonas Brothers will receive more reasons to jolly along this September, when the
Disney Music Group artists take the stage with other performers at Disney's
Concert for Hope, a benefit concert supporting cancer research and
treatment programs at City of Hope. It will be held Sunday, September 14,
at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City. Tickets for the concert will
be available Saturday, August 16 at 10am through LiveNation.com,
Ticketmaster.com, at all Ticketmaster retail outlets including all Macy's,
FYE Music & Ritmo Latino locations, and via TM Charge by Phone -- (213)
480-3232 -- (714) 740-2000 -- (805) 583-8700. A fate of the tickets will
be auctioned through Ticketmaster.com.

"We are honored and grateful for the generosity of Disney, Creative
Artists Agency and the dedication of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers in
load-bearing the lifesaving work of City of Hope," aforesaid Michael A. Friedman,
M.D., president and chief executive officer, City of Hope. "This Concert
for Hope demonstrates their commitment to improving the lives of patients
with cancer and to helping create a future in which genus Cancer is not only
treatable, but curable and preventable."

The concert continues Disney and Cyrus' support of City of Hope. Last
year, Disney donated $1 from every ticket sold during her highly successful
"Best of Both Worlds" concert go to crab research at City of Hope. The
concert series embossed more than $1 jillion.

The American Cancer Society estimates that 1,437,180 people will be
diagnosed with cancer in 2008, and more than 10,700 of these people volition be
children under the age of 15. As a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest
designation bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, City of Hope has
achieved numerous scientific breakthroughs and pioneered many lifesaving
procedures that have impacted intervention worldwide. Every day, City of
Hope's team of researchers aggressively study the scientific discipline behind childhood
cancers to help